Letters

THE EDITOR, Madam: As part of the announced works programme to “boost business confidence and sop up sagging labour”, I would urge the prime minister to embark on an islandwide project to repaint the lane markings on our roads. The absence of...

THE EDITOR, Madam: WHAT GOOD is a national curfew as a containment measure to prevent or stem the spread of COVID-19, when it makes little sense – both in theory and in practice – when paired with social distancing and, moreover, the mandatory...

THE EDITOR, Madam: I WATCHED the Prime Minister in Parliament speaking of the need to restart the construction industry and having such workers exempt from any curfew. Additionally, the law as pertaining to “gatherings” of not more than 10 being...

THE EDITOR, Madam: We have now reached a point where our economy is at a critical phase. Resources have been allocated for the enhancement of the COVID-19 testing, which requires a lot. The current collection methodology includes a nasopharyngeal...

THE EDITOR, Madam: WHAT A load of nonsense. That is my response to Michael Abrahams’ column ‘What really happened at Andrews Memorial Hospital’, published in yesterday’s Gleaner. Forgive me if my emotions get the better of me, but Abrahams’...

THE EDITOR, Madam: Forty per cent of United States oil rigs are offline. Vietnam, Chad, Brazil, and members of OPEC are cutting output of oil. About 50 million barrels of oil are going into storage a week. Land-based storage is expected to...

THE EDITOR, Madam: FOR THOSE Jamaicans who are so staunchly opposed to NIDS (National Identification System) on the grounds of privacy concerns, let me bring you up to the age that you are already living in. I do so by illustration. If you go to...

THE EDITOR, Madam I WISH to first of all state that I feel Dr Peter Phillips to be perhaps Jamaica’s best minister of finance in recent memory, to include our current one. I also found Dr Phillips to be militant and unrelenting as minister of...

THE EDITOR, Madam I CAME across an article in your online publication Friday, April 24, 2020 titled ‘Deposit-taking institutions suspend dividend payments for 2020 due to COVID-19’. This is a very bitter pill to swallow, especially at this time...

THE EDITOR, Madam, If the wearing of masks in public is now mandatory in Jamaica –as announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness – and if, as many medical experts, including the Surgeon General of the United States, D. Jerome Adams, the Director of...

THE EDITOR, Madam: I would like to share three recommendations which I hope the prime minister might consider as a part of the communications strategy to keep the nation abreast of the measures promulgated to restrict the spread of the COVID-19...

THE EDITOR, Madam: MY FELLOW Jamaicans, as a man of God from the Anglican Church in Jamaica...